familiaritas
πενία μόνα τὰς τέχνας ἐγείρει → poverty alone promotes skilled work, necessity is the mother of invention, necessity is the mother of all invention, poverty is the mother of invention, out of necessity comes invention, out of necessity came invention, frugality is the mother of invention
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
fămĭlĭārĭtas: ātis, f. familiaris, II. B. I.,
I familiarity, intimacy, familiar intercourse, friendship, intimate acquaintance.
I Prop. (freq. and class.; in <number opt="n">sing.</number> and plur.; syn.: amicitia, necessitudo, notitia): familiaritas tanta nullo cum hospite ... ut nihil sit familiaritate nostra conjunctius, Cic. Fam. 13, 19, 1; cf.: cum Antipatro Derbete mihi ... summa familiaritas intercedit, id. ib. 13, 73, 2: cum P. Terentio Hispone mihi summa familiaritas consuetudoque est, id. ib. 13, 65, 1: viri boni ... familiaritate conjuncti, id. Off. 1, 17, 55: memorabilis C. Laelii et P. Scipionis, id. Lael. 1, 4: digna mihi res nostrā familiaritate visa est, id. ib.: Verginii familiaritate delector, id. ib. 27, 101: familiaritatem consuetudo affert, id. Deiot. 14, 39: in alicujus familiaritatem venire, id. Fam. 7, 15, 2: in familiaritatem intrare penitus, id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 5, § 15: se insinuare, id. Caecin. 5, 13: sese dare, id. Verr. 2, 2, 70, § 169: recipere aliquem, id. Phil. 2, 32, 78: ad ali cujus familiaritatem se applicare, id. Clu. 16, 46: versatus in intima familiaritate hominis potentissimi, id. Balb. 26, 58: aliquem familiaritate devincire, id. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 2, § 4 et saep.—In plur.: consuetudines et familiaritates, Cic. Off. 1, 17, 53: inveteratas familiaritates exstinguere (opp.: odia sempiterna), id. Lael. 10, 35: jam a sapientium familiaritatibus ad vulgares amicitias oratio nostra delabitur, id. ib. 21, 76.—
II Transf., in plur. concr. for familiares, intimate acquaintances, friends: omnes amicitias et familiaritates intra breve tempus afflixit, Suet. Tib. 51 fin.—In <number opt="n">sing.</number>: e praecipua familiaritate Neronis, Tac. A. 15, 50.
